To the editor: I live in Milton, under 4R, a NextGen satellite-based sky highway to Logan Airport. Living 10 miles from the airport, I expect a certain amount of air traffic, which was the case until 2014, when NextGen was introduced. The new technology trades fanned-out air traffic for an efficient, targeted noise and pollution superhighway. Last year, 60,000 planes flew directly over my home.

Planes will fly every 90 seconds for 20 hours per day, weeks on end. For my family, this means 4 hours of sleep per night, or camping out in the basement.

We have lost productivity with work because of lost sleep and stress. My three kids have missed school. The unaffected snarkily suggest that we move – but even if we do, the public health problem remains. And though my neighbors who live miles away from the flight path don’t hear the planes, their bodies still absorb the pollution.

Milton isn’t asking for zero planes. We are asking for fairly distributed air traffic. Massport should care as much about the humans on the ground as it does about the money earned from gate fees.

People feel desperate and tortured. Is our government comfortable with that?

MELISSA FASSEL DUNN, Milton

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